“I’ve been writing for lifetimes.”

Working with words has always been something deeply connected to my sense of passion and curiosity. For the last decade+, I’ve worked with humans from around the world, of all ages, at different stages in their lives in cultivating their authentic creative expression through the written word. It has been incredible and illuminating. On this page are some of my own words, inspired by life, created to inspire life and all its meaningful possibilities into manifestation. Here, you’ll find poetry, nonfiction, creative + experimental nonfiction, fiction short stories, embodied poetry, and whatever else I want to present. Please enjoy.

I recently debuted my first book — a poetry collection. Check out “Poetry and the immediate: A collection of sensed spaces”, and enjoy your perusal.

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"Tell me a story about anxiety."

“There, too, my anxiety felt at home. My fast-moving legs through Grand Bazaar, overstimulated by sounds and senses and smells on my way to sip the black tea that would be absorbed by the creamy crunch of Künefe between my four front teeth.”

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Past my bedtime

“We hug hard and I feel I'm where I'm supposed to be”

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On Grace, Embodiment, and Being Divinely Human

“Because I may never feel quite perfect, but may always hold the desire to achieve perfection deeply within me, the process of intentionally living in grace is upheld as a tenet of the Self I am becoming through this process of shedding — of transformation.”

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Permeate

“There's something slippery about my sexy. / Something soft about my strength.”

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6/18/2021

“The inner world was calling for my softness — my surrender. My old methods of constant pushing and doing were no longer effective. My process and practice of expression had shifted.”

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In Your Kiss

“Speak to me again / in the way / that melts my vertebrae.”

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What does it mean to be "love"?

“And so as I reflect on the journal entry that prompted this cognition — and metacognition — I think of love as a kind of knowledge.”

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The Magic of the Moment

“She lost recollection of where she was, what had happened throughout the day, her plan for the rest of the trip, and submitted the whirlwind and whimsy of this kiss.”

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La levedad del ser

“Our friend, the moon / Dances with us / Challenging the dense viscosity of our spirits / To loosen, lengthen, flow / Flow is life.”

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Guilt

“Guilt is such a burden. It eats me up inside and spits me back out, slyly grinning like it's got a hold of me.”

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Heat-filled Night

“Oh sweet surrender… / Drops of your love stain / my lips like raspberry sorbet.”

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What a pleasure

“What a pleasure to transcend the ego, even if only for a bit. / To revel in the pure consciousness of my being; / to explore life in this body / to explore what it means to love in this body…”

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